Phenomenology and the Creative Process

Steven L. Bindeman was Professor of Philosophy and Department Chairperson at Strayer University until his retirement in 2010. He earned his Ph.D. from Duquesne University in 1980. His teaching experience reflects not only his interest in philosophy and psychology, but in film and media studies, science fiction, world music, and comparative religion. He has published articles on Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Levinas, the creative process, and silence. He is the author of three books: Heidegger and Wittgenstein: The Poetics of Silence (1981), The Antiphilosophers (Peter Lang, 2015), and Silence in Philosophy, Literature, and Art (2017).

Acknowledgments – Preface – Introduction – Bergson and the Experience of Duration – Husserl and the Crisis of European Sciences – Tymieniecka on Phenomenology and Creativity – Heidegger on the Origins of Art – Sartre on Becoming Authentic – Merleau-Ponty’s Embodied Approach to Creative Experience – Klee’s Modernist Creativity – Literary Ontology – Narrative Construction – How Narratives Differ from Reality – Aristotle’s and Nietzsche’s Contrasting Views on Metaphor – Heidegger on Metaphor – Derrida and Ricoeur on Metaphor – Bachelard’s Creative Approach to Knowing and Imagining – Derrida’s Notions of Difference and Différance Deleuze’s Philosophy of Creative Becoming – Gendlin’s Focus on Felt Meaning – Kleinberg-Levin and the Four Stages of the Listening Self – Rosen’s Notion on the Creative Challenge of Apeiron – Becoming Immortal—Like a Machine – Thinking with a Machine – Altered States – Transformed Consciousness: Issues in Science Fiction – The Creative Process and Modern Physics – The Creative Process and the Human Sciences – The Creative Process and the Social Sciences – The Creative Process and the Arts – Concluding Remarks – Bibliography – Index.